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Friday, October 26, 2012

There was an AC 130 Gunship over Benghazi, but the White House did not authorize it to defend Ambassador Stevens and the other embattled Americans...so they died. These men were abandoned by their Commander in Chief.

The security officer had a laser on the target that was firing and repeatedly requested back-up support from a Specter gunship, which is commonly used by U.S. Special Operations forces to provide support to Special Operations teams on the ground involved in intense firefights. The fighting at the CIA annex went on for more than four hours — enough time for any planes based in Sigonella Air base, just 480 miles away, to arrive. Fox News has also learned that two separate Tier One Special operations forces were told to wait, among them Delta Force operators.

Tyrone Woods' father responds to the news that the White House was watching the attack in real time: Mr. Woods notes that neither Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton seemed sincere when his son's body was returned to the United States. Mr. Woods says his son and the other Americans were abandoned by their Commander in Chief.

Update: The CIA denies through Petraeus not authorizing the Gunship to engage, but Barack Obama says he was never told. Who does the buck stop with exactly?